I am feeling very blessed today! Part of it has to do with it being Tuesday.
Tuesday is a very good day for us in LCM-C. A group of us have lunch in
Harcombe, there is Praise Band and handbells, and we round out the
evening with our Bible study.
But there are deeper and more
substantial reasons for me to feel blessed. The blessings which endure
are those which do not depend on the waxing or waning of fortune. Those
blessings remain with us through all things and come to us from a
source greater than our immediate lives.
In Luke 11, Jesus' is
interrupted by a woman in the crowd. She shouts, "Blessed is the womb
that bore you, and the breast that you sucked!" Her expression of
admiration for Mary, the mother of Jesus, is repeated millions of times
every day. Surely, Mary was blessed by God and worthy of being
honored. What filled me with a sense of blessing this morning was
Jesus' response to her shout.
Jesus says in reply, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"
The
blessings which Jesus comes to share are given to me, to you, to all
those who listen to him and live the life he makes possible.
Surely,
Mary is blessed. And, appropriately, the Church remembers her and her
blessing. And yet, the one whom she bore speaks of us as those whom he
blesses.
May these words of scripture be a blessing to you. And may you know this day (and every day) that you are truly blessed.
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